CFP: Bollywood Music (4/30/03; collection)

We are seeking contributors for an upcoming anthology on Bollywood music.There are two major academic presses who have expressed a strong interestin this subject and we are looking for abstracts and enquiries.Please find below the scope of the book and the questions it asks

Description

This anthology explores from an interdisciplinary perspective thetrajectory of Bollywood music's entry into global cultural space, thereasons for its contemporary relevance, and how this moment can help usredefine the term "Bollywood". We ask whether Bollywood music ? inparticular the song and dance sequences ? that are ubiquitous in Bollywoodfilm enable identifications and affective circuits that provincializeexisting understandings of national cinema. In its different avatars,Bollywood music far from being an additional element to the entertainmenton offer is the central axis along which pleasure, desire andidentification are calibrated. Thus Bollywood film ? constituted equallyof musical and visual elements ? emerges as a contranational artifact parexcellence whose world travels are enabled by this constitutive hybridity.

Some of the issues we seek to elucidate are:

n Where, how, and why does Bollywood music travel? What is its reception at different locations? n What are the economic, political, and cultural imperatives of Bollywood music's global trajectory? n How has Bollywood music been transformed by and appropriated to local needs? What forms of national identifications does the music enable? n What are the structural features that enable Bollywood music to travel not only in space, across national and cultural borders, but across forms and genres? n How has Bollywood music been re-located to enunciate marginality in metropolitan space? n What are the distinguishing features of Bollywood music's travels in the North, its travels in the South, and its travels in the Indian diaspora? What is its salience in these different sites? n What are the history and politics of this travel?

We seek, in particular, interdiscplinary perspectives.

Please address abstract and enquiries to one or both of the the co-editors.

Sujata Moorti Associate Professor of English Old Dominion University smoorti_at_odu.edu

Sangita Gopal Assistant Professor of English Old Dominion University sgopal_at_odu.edu